chiefcramer
USA Somewhere
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We have and will continue to overnight at WalMarts that are open 24 hours. We prefer not to overnight in an parking lot when the store is closed for business.
Dave & Kathy
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HeresLucy
Southeast FL
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Glad you made that call. Good for you. I always thought if I encountered this and had no other option I'd trigger the toad alarm or lay on the hadley horns. May or may not work, but worth a shot.
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Briteskys
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CA Traveler wrote:Planning to use the Sequim, WA one in a few weeks. Another camper told me that it was set up for rigs including ground level lights! Hey Bob - the Sequim WalMart lot is huge. The west side is entirely away from the main parking and almost as large as the area in front of the store.
We overnighted there a few weeks ago. Good spot.
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CISCO8325
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someone come knocking on my door at 1am. theY gonna get a bat over their head.my dog would be biting their leg and then I may call 911 or move on. This is carp. My sign sayS you knock you get Rocked. kinda like NO SOLICITORS
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Horseplay
NC
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Don't let this stop you from overnighting. I had the same deal at a campground I was paying for! 
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Paul Clancy
BC Canada
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Was at the Sequim Walmart last week while camping at the Port Angeles KOA, nice store and a beautiful community. I get it that panhandlers are everywhere (my home town has its share working parking lots) but at 1am thats not about handouts - something more sinister is quite likely. Safety of my family will always come first so I'll be booking koa's for the trip and taking substantially longer to get to S. CA -If we go at all. Takes some of the fun out of the journey for me though. Oh well , that's the world we're livin in.
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maddog348
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I'm with HeresLucy -- I keep 'toad' keys near at hand when feel ????? area. Also my S&B faces fwy o/pass no neighbors either side. Don't answer the door late at nite at home either -- if folks broke-down will call authorities - but NO ONE comes in to use phone.
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Nascarcruzin
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We have stayed at WM several times each week, for the last 5 years. Once we were awaken by a lot sweeper. We retract our steps before we go to sleep.
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KarenInTheWoods
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Brings to mind a few questions...
How does a *deaf* trucker expect to *hear* your response from inside the safety of your rig? Hollaring through the closed and locked door? Either telling him to go to blazes or telling him here's 20 bucks?
For heaven's sake, you didn't open the door, did you?
Were you gesturing or deaf-signing to him?
(I would turn on all my flood lights and blast the air horn repeatedly till he leaves, in case he has some other sinister agenda in mind)
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Paul Clancy
BC Canada
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Karen the guy was high, very muscular much as many convicts are , certainly no trucker and not deaf. This was his schpiel to extort money from innocents at 1am , or worse. No I didn't open the door, I yelled through it and he left my rig quickly and started to harrass the other in the lot. He then left when I called 911. My wife thinks he was working with a partner in another vehical across the lot.
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